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From: wolfgang@clio.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 16-colour X server?
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:04:09 GMT
Organization: Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany
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References: <7656@skye.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <7656@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
>16-colour driver for XFree386? This would be useful for those of us
>with video boards with only 512k and should also be twice as fast as
>the 8-bit version (unless vga is even more brain-dead than it seems).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So it is, as every 16-color pixel write needs multiple outb instructions
to modify the right bits in the right bit planes, and reading is even worse.
Wolfgang R. Mueller <dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.